Hi Josh,

There is an installer 1.1b available from:

        <ftp://ftp.best.com/pub.s/sbrown/installer_1.1b.hqx>

It for sure includes the large disk patch(Although I believe it is
in 1.1a as well) as well as a couple of more error checks, patches for
the progress bar, etc.  You may want to try this version.  If the new
installer tells you that it can't find your bsd partitions, please let
me know and we'll tackle it from there.

Steve Brown,
sbrown@best.com

p.s.  The basic problem here sounds almost as if you don't have a "Root & Usr"
        type partition, or that it is not one of the first 8 partitions
        in the partition map.  Please verify those conditions and let me
        know.

>Hi all,
>
>Are Installer 1.1a and Mkfs 1.2 the latest versions available?  If not
>where can I get newer?  The reason I ask is that after partitioning my
>drive (an IBM Ultrastar ES 2.1 GM external from LaCie) with
>Silverlining 5.7 into a 350MB Root & Usr and a 36MB Swap with a couple
>HFS partitions filling the rest I ran Mkfs 1.2 on the Root & Usr
>partition and it gave me a warning to the effect that Extended SCSI
>Read/Write calls are needed for this partition and the resulting
>filesystem may be incompatible with the Installer.  Otherwise no
>errors from Mkfs.  Then when I run Installer 1.1a (I tried 1.1 and a
>``Patched_Installer'' from ftp.macbsd.com as well with the same
>results) I get this:
>
>sd0 at scsi ID 6.
>Partition read, SCSIID = 6
>Mounting partition 'A' as /
>Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
>failed mountfs(), error 22.
>Error mounting root.
>mount root. : Undefined error: 0
>
>Any ideas what's going on?  My system is a 12MB Q630 and while running
>Mkfs and Installer there were no extensions installed and the system
>version is 7.5.5.  If there is anything I should have mentioned and
>missed please let me know.
>
>Thanks a lot,  -Josh
>_________________________________________________________________________
>Josh Berdine                                   jjberdin@smith.cis.syr.edu
>Undergraduate - Computer Science  |  Syracuse University  |  Syracuse, NY